July 8, 2014 2:45am EDTJuly 8, 2014 2:45am EDTDavid Ortiz is, let's just say, not pleased with MLB Network. The Red Sox DH unloaded on it Monday after his name was added to the John Lackey/Nelson Cruz/Buck-Showalter PED to-do from the weekend.David Ortiz(AP Photo)

David Ortiz is, let's just say, not pleased with MLB Network. The Red Sox DH unloaded on it Monday after his name was added to the John Lackey/Nelson Cruz/Buck Showalter PED to-do between the Sox and Orioles over the weekend.

Ortiz was annoyed that an on-air person brought up Ortiz's reported positive PED test in 2003, before MLB's drug policy was in effect. Ortiz, it was claimed, has received a "free pass" about the test since then. In a later interview with Boston radio station WEEI, Big Papi launched a profane protest/defense.

Two excerpts, per WEEI:

“He wants to make it sound like I got a free pass because nobody can point fingers at me directly. But the reason why I got that fake f— free pass that he’s saying is because they pointed fingers at me with no proof. It’s easier to do it that way than having something that they can say, ‘Yes, you did this, you did that.’ My ass, I call straight up bull. Let me tell you. You don’t get no free pass here, especially a guy like me. I don’t get no free pass. That free pass B.S. that they want to talk about over there, they can shove it up their ass.

“That’s reality. You don’t use the words that I get a free pass. You don’t get a free pass on this. MLB don’t play that B.S. MLB don’t play that. There’s a reason why I’ve been drug-tested like eight times and we’re not even at the (All-Star) break. Is that a free pass? There’s a reason why I’ve been tested like 40 times since they approved the policy, the drug policy. Is that a free pass? They can get that free pass and shove it up their ass.”